Hook and eye.



A. M. SCHNEIDER.

HOOK AND EYB.

APPLIoATIoN FILED 00T. 21, 1910.

150374.334. l Patented Sept. 3, 1912.

ANNA MARGARETHA scnnninnaosnos .aneELEs, oALrronNrA.

Hoon AND EYE.'

Speccatonof ietters Patent.A

' 'Patented sept. 3,1912.

Application ined october 21, 1910. serialv no. 588,255.

To (LZZ whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, ANNA M. SCHNEIDER, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, 'and State of California, have invented 1certain new and useful Improvementsfin Hanks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates vto garment fastening devices and particularly to that class thereof known as hooks and eyes.

The object of my invention is to provide an iu'lproved. hook and'eye fastener which may be readily attached to the goods without sewing and as readily removed therefrom.

A further object of my invention is to provide a readily removable hook and eye fastener which shall not easily become accidentally detached from the goods or garment.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

With these objects in view my invention consists generally in providing a hook and eye fastener with attaching mea-ns consisting of sharpened prongs formed by sharpening the end of the wire by which the Inembers are made and curving the sameoutwardly and then inwardly at the point. The points are depressed slightly below the bearing face of the fastening members in order to facilitate attaching the device to the goods or garment. y

My invention further consists in various details of construction and arrangementsof .parts all as will be fully described herein-V after and particularly pointed out in the claims.

Mv invention will be more readily understo by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specitication and in which- Figurev lf'is an illustration of a portion of a garment equipped with two fasteners em- ,.bodying my invention, Fig. 2 is a -side elevation, upon an enlar ed scale, of a hook and eye fastener embo ying my invention in itsfpreferred form, Fig. 3 is a plan view ofthe eye member of the fastener, and Fig. 4 is a similar View of the hook member.

Referring 4now to the drawings 1 indicates the hook member, and 2 the eye member of the fastener, each of which is formed of a sin rle piece of wire bent 'to the re uired shape. E1n making the hook a piece o wire is'doubledl at the center upon itself forming the closelying parallel port-ions 3-3 which are again bent transversely of the direction of the first bend l as at 1 forming the hook 4 and shank 5. The ends of the wire, which are at the end ot' the shank, are bent outwardly as at 6 with a wcllrounded curve terminating in sharpened points or ends 7v which extend inwardly and forwardly toward the shank. The points 7 are preferably depressed below the plane of the shank as shown clearly in F ig. 2.

The eye is formed by bending a single pieceof wire to form a well rounded I oop S atthe center which is contracted at the rear end as at 9, and the endsof the wire are curved outwardly as at l0 and lthen inwardly terminating in the inwardly and forwardly extending pointed ends or prongs 11 similar to the portion 7 of the hook member. The prongs 11 are also preferably depressed a slightdistauce below the plane of the loop S. In applying the device to the goods or clothing the prongs 7 and 11 are inserted in the goods at` the points where it is desired that the loops 6 and 10 shall ultimately engage the goods and for this reason the points 7 are in direct longitudlnal alinement with that portion of the loop mentioned as indicated by the .dotted lines in Figs. 3 and 4. the goods the goods is slightly stretched as it passes over the extreme outward port-ion of the curve ends and then resumes its normal. In this way t-he members are not sis In forcing the ends into readily/.disengaged from the garment acy cidentally.l If the. goods are of such a.

of the points may be inserted its full distance and then the device turned unt-il the other point is in proper position for entering the goods, after which it is inserted and the fastener turned to proper position. To this end the distance from each point lo' apoint .'11 on the opposite attaching porta-n, just beyond ultimate engaging position ,f, is substantially the same as tlnvv dis-lance between the two ultimate engaging points itl-.Tl-

I-laving described my invention what l. claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a hook and eye fastener, a fastening member formed of a single piece of wire, and attaching means formed by curving the 10 be successlve ends of the wireA outwardly mat/e engaged points and then forwardly and inward] in circular form, terminating in Shar po1nts,"th`e'. distance between the 5 pointsl eing substantially the same as the gaging.

distance between the ultimate en oints Aand slightly less than the distance etween each point and the opposite ultimate engagingpoint so that the points may y engaged With the fabric forming ulti-i without appreciably stretching the saine, substantially as described.

`In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two ,subscribing witnesses.

ANNA MARGARETHA SCHNEIDER.

Witnesses:

E. L. WISDOM, W. Nonms BUGKLIN? Jn 

